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In a social media video, former UGA college football star Herschel Walker announced that he is running for a Georgia Senate seat. Clip...

Germany is working “intensively” to evacuate Afghan staff ahead of a looming deadline, Chancellor Angela Merkel told lawmakers in the Bundestag on Wednesday. Merkel’s remarks came after US President Joe Biden ruled out extending the deadline for evacuations beyond August 31. German military aircraft have so far rescued over 4,600 people including German citizens and local support workers, according to the German Defense Ministry. Merkel said that Germany would still try to help Afghans who worked with its soldiers and aid organizations and wish to leave Afghanistan even after the deadline. “The end of the air bridge in a few...

LONDON — The international scientists dispatched to China by the World Health Organization to find out where the coronavirus came from said Wednesday the search has stalled and warned that the window of opportunity for solving the mystery is “closing fast.” Meanwhile, a U.S. intelligence review ordered up by President Joe Biden proved inconclusive about the virus’s origin, including whether it jumped from an animal to a human or escaped from a Chinese lab, The Washington Post reported Wednesday. In a commentary published in the journal Nature, the WHO-recruited experts said the origins investigation is at “a critical juncture” requiring...

The Pentagon is requiring all service members to get vaccinated against coronavirus, effective immediately. The decision, announced in a memo from Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, bumps up an earlier plan, which had called for people to get vaccinated by Sept. 15. The announcement of the previous deadline noted that the date could be moved up if a vaccine were to get FDA approval, and the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine received that approval earlier this week. "To defend this Nation, we need a healthy and ready force," Austin said in a memo. "After careful consultation with medical experts and military leadership, and...

The RAF has evacuated 10,291 people out of Kabul to date. That includes 341 embassy staff, 2,570 UK nationals and 6,308 under the government’s Afghan relocation programme (ARAP). Defence sources say there’s been an “uptick” in people being beaten on their way to the airport. The defence secretary has already gone on record to say that not everyone will get out in the airlift. The BBC has also been told that the terrorist threat remains high with “a very real risk of an attack" on the airport. There is specific concern about the threat posed by ISKP. Next the 1,000...

MATTHEW 23:27-32 Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus judges the Pharisees for their hypocrisy. He says, “On the outside you appear righteous, but inside you are filled with hypocrisy and evildoing.” One of the greatest dangers in the spiritual life is to fall into the trap of auto-salvation, the conviction that one can save oneself through heroic moral effort. The principal problem with such a strategy is that it results in the strengthening of the very egotism that one hopes to overcome. What Jesus so vehemently critiqued in the Pharisees was just this kind of egotism: “You are like whitewashed tombs,...

A majority of Americans back both the bipartisan infrastructure bill and Democrats' much larger budget reconciliation spending plan, according to a new poll. The USA Today-Suffolk University survey indicated that about 63 percent of Americans support the roughly $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, which passed the Senate earlier this month, USA Today reported on Wednesday. Almost all Democrats but only 36 percent of Republicans polled reportedly support the plan. The $3.5 trillion reconciliation package, which is geared toward Democratic priorities and has been advertised as a “human infrastructure” bill, received less support but still a majority at 52 percent, including...

Over the past several months, critical race theory (CRT) has become one of the most divisive topics in higher education and in America’s political dialogue. Mainstream liberals have framed the issue as simply a matter of teaching accurate history. In their eyes, teaching CRT in the classroom is equivalent to teaching that slavery existed, Black Americans were historically discriminated against, and there are still some residual consequences from that historical legacy. To oppose CRT, in their eyes, is to teach a white-washed version of history in which America can do no wrong. But according to actual critical race theorists, this...

f you thought the Joe Biden Afghanistan disaster was bad now – things are going to get much worse. Joe Biden supplied the Taliban terrorist organization and their Islamist accomplices with billions of dollars worth of US armaments. Rather than destroying the equipment before leaving the country, Joe Biden decided to leave the nearly $85 billion worth of US military equipment to the Taliban. As The Gateway Pundit reported on Sunday — Joe Biden left 300 times more guns than those passed to the Mexican cartels in Obama’s Fast and Furious program. A more complete list was created with public...

America just doesn’t have a good “feeling” about Vice President Kamala Harris. Going back 28 years in NBC polling, no other new vice president has been welcomed so coldly by Americans as the Democrat and first woman in the job .In the latest survey, pollster Bill McInturff pointed out her low positive rating, at 37%, and tweeted this morning, “VP Harris has lowest feeling thermometer of any first year VP going back to Gore in 1993 with an unprecedented ‘very negative’ rating on @NBCNews survey tracking.” The survey put her positive rating below former Vice Presidents Al Gore, Dick Cheney,...

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla on Tuesday said a vaccine-resistant variant will likely emerge. But don’t worry because the pharma company already has a system in place to release a “variant-specific” jab within 95 days. Two doses of the Pfizer vaccine plus a booster shot may not be enough to protect from new variants. So we’re already talking about a fourth Covid jab.

A majority of Americans oppose the resettlement of more than 50,000 Afghans in the United States, according to a survey by Rasmussen Reports. The August 18-19 survey of 1,000 likely voters was taken as President Joe Biden appears to be expanding the number of migrants he is flying to the United States, far above the initial predictions of 22,000 Afghans — plus family members — who worked alongside the U.S. soldiers who were supporting Afghanistan’s government. “Enormous numbers of [Afghan] people are trying to jam themselves into that [airlift] funnel right now,” said Ken Cuccinelli, who served as the deputy...

In a statement to news outlet Handelsblatt, one of Germany’s major electricity companies admitted that it is taking Tesla and its energy division very seriously. “We take Tesla very seriously and watch exactly what they are up to,” the electricity company said. This could prove to be a worthwhile strategy, as the electric car manufacturer is slowly encroaching into Germany’s utility sector. Simon Alvarez BySimon AlvarezPosted on August 25, 2021 Germany’s players in the utility sector are starting to feel quite nervous about Tesla’s expansion into the country’s energy market. This is especially true when it comes to the deployment...

NEW: The Bahamas has just announced new protocols requiring any visitors (12 years and older) to be fully vaccinated. Due to this latest requirement, MSC Cruises will now be requiring all guests 12 years and older to be fully vaccinated on all sailings beginning September 3, 2021 through and including sailings of October 31, 2021 departing from PortMiami and Port Canaveral. Please read the requirements based on your departure date for exact information and to ensure you are not denied boarding. A not fully vaccinated guest is considered to be someone: 1) who has not received their second dose in...

A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) insider is explaining how federal agents turn a blind eye to gangs at the border that are involved in child sex trafficking. The whistleblower emerged to Project Veritas and explained to Veritas founder James O’Keefe that the child sex traffickers exploit a loophole that allows them free reign to commit heinous crimes. “Once an [illegal immigrant] informs the U.S. government that they have some type of fear, or that their life is in jeopardy, or they’ll be persecuted, or they may be tortured, they are put in what’s called the ‘reasonable fear [category],’” the...

A report by Dr. Joseph Mercola claims to include a document from Big Pharma Pfizer with the nation Albania regarding their COVID vaccine. A summary of the report shows: A leaked document broken down by Twitter user Ehden reveals the shocking terms of Pfizer’s international COVID-19 vaccine agreements. Countries that purchase Pfizer’s COVID-19 shot must acknowledge that “Pfizer’s efforts to develop and manufacture the product” are “subject to significant risks and uncertainties.” In the event that a drug or other treatment comes out that can prevent, treat or cure COVID-19, the agreement stands, and the country must follow through with...

Convicted pedophiles have been living in city homeless shelters near elementary schools in a clear violation of state law — and bureaucrats in Albany and New York are frantically trying to duck the blame by pointing fingers at each other. A frightening state Senate report that will be made public on Monday shocked officials into freezing the release of all parole-eligible perverts from prison until authorities can fix a system that allowed child predators to reside within 1,000 feet of schools. The total number of degenerates living in close proximity to schools was not immediately clear. State officials blamed the...

For whatever reason, it appears there is an interest among some people in using a medication for animals to treat or prevent COVID-19. The problem is - ivermectin meant for animals is not safe for humans. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently posted on Twitter - “You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously y’all. Stop it.” On its website, the FDA said, “There seems to be a growing interest in a drug called ivermectin to treat humans with COVID-19. Ivermectin is often used in the U.S. to treat or prevent parasites in animals. The FDA...

First, the FDA acknowledges that while Pfizer has “insufficient stocks” of the newly licensed Comirnaty vaccine available, there is “a significant amount” of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID vaccine — produced under Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) — still available for use. The FDA decrees that the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine under the EUA should remain unlicensed but can be used “interchangeably” (page 2, footnote 8) with the newly licensed Comirnaty product. Second, the FDA pointed out that the licensed Pfizer Comirnaty vaccine and the existing, EUA Pfizer vaccine are “legally distinct,” but proclaims that their differences do not “impact safety or effectiveness.”

From The Daily Caller: The Saints are playing the first game in the NFL to require fans to be vaccinated or provide a negative PCR COVID-19 test. What has that done to ticket prices for Monday night? Driven them straight into the ground. According to Darren Rovell, some tickets on the secondary market are selling for less than $1 before fees. As of this moment, StubHub has tickets for as cheap as $6. So, while it's not the lowest on the secondary market, they're still absurdly cheap. This is honestly insane. Imagine taking your entire family to an NFL game...